OK great, everything looks good. You can go ahead and get started.
The step by step guide refers to Project Gutenberg, but since we're not
using them you can import the files from your transcription source. Make
sure NOT to include any copyrighted data in your first commit - you must
only include the raw transcription and no surrounding HTML like site
headers, navigation, etc.
Many of these are in British-style quotation, i.e. single quotes instead
of double quotes for dialog. You'll have to run `se british2american` to
change that, and then carefully proofread to make sure no miscurled
quotes were introduced by accident.
Each story will be an <article epub:type="se:short-story"> and not a
<section>; see the manual for file naming conventions.
You'll also have to include some special metadata in content.opf to
identify this as a short story collection, again see the manual.
Make sure to read the Standard Ebooks Manual of Style before starting,
as you won't know what to fix if you haven't read the standards. In
particular, please closely review the semantics, high level patterns,
and typography sections:
https://standardebooks.org/manual
https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/4-semantics
https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/7-high-level-structural-patterns
https://standardebooks.org/manual/latest/8-typography
The step by step guide will take you from start to finish. Please follow
it exactly:
https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step
This page on common issues in older books may be useful:
https://standardebooks.org/contribute/how-tos/common-issues-when-working-on-public-domain-ebooks
Please email often if you have any questions at all. Our standards are
well-established so there is probably already a standard for formatting
whatever problem you've encountered.
When you're ready, email back with a link to your Github repository so
that I can assign you a manager and reviewer.
Have fun! :)
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